Re: [PATCH] Add possibility to set /dev/tty number
From: One Thousand Gnomes
Date: Tue Jan 05 2016 - 15:48:06 EST
> This means that not including the VT subsystem resulted in a 128k
> reduction in runtime footprint, and having only half the number of VT's
> resulted in a 52k reduction. Assuming a linear correlation between the
> number of VT's and the runtime footprint of the subsystem, that means
> the subsystem itself incurs 26k of overhead, and each VT incurs
> approximately 1.6k of overhead.
Doesn't seem an unreasonable value - so yes you've made an argument for
dynamically allocating the vt structures when they are first referenced.
Alan
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